First Week of Classes

I am taking Nutrition and Health, Drugs and Human Behavior, Australian Literature, and Australian Pop Culture. I don't have classes on Mondays or Fridays, so my Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday is jam packed. Very few people have classes on Friday here- they just don't schedule much on Fridays. And I just lucked out and didn't have any on Mondays either. So although my school week is short, it is very busy. For each subject I take, I have what they call the lecture and the tutorial. The lecture meets once a week and is either two or three hours long. That's a long time to listen and take notes! The tutorial also meets once a week, but only meets for one hour and only has 5-10 people in it. The tutorial is used to discuss what we learn in lecture so it is all discussion based. The classes here are pretty small (20-30 people) like High Point, so I like that! I bring my lunch to class every day because I don't have time to run back to my house in between classes and it's pretty expensive to buy it on campus- especially if I did that every day.

I really like my Nutrition and Health teacher. She works in a local hospital as a nutritionist/dietician so she's very up to date on her information. I think I will really enjoy that class! And she's even doing the whole class in the standard system of measurements in the US, instead of metric! She said in past years the majority of that class has been American students, but this semester it seems about half and half. I had no idea so many American students went here, not just for study abroad, but for their entire degree. I'm glad it'll be in the system I know though because that would have made it much more difficult! My Australian Pop Culture class is quite large, because many of the study abroad kids take it in order to learn about their surroundings. It seems like it will be interesting and it will be nice to know more about the area I am in. For Australian Literature, we are reading books that Australian people wrote. I need a literature credit for High Point and I didn't want to have to take a Bible or Shakespeare course, so I decided to try Australian lit. I think it will be ok- much better than Shakespeare! The books are pretty recent which makes it more enjoyable for me. My teacher even said, why should she teach us something none of will care about, so I know she understands the pain many people have with Shakespeare. She seems like she will be interesting and funny. My drugs and Human Behavior course will be used for me to get into PT school. Seems kind of random to me, but they want it. It's quite a bit of physiology, and a lot about different drugs and how the body reacts to many situations. All of my teachers are Australian, except for my Drugs and Behavior teacher who is from the US. Although the Australians do speak English, I do have to listen a little more carefully because sometimes I just hear hugnkdhfieofrheng. Some of their accents are very strong, but I'm sure I will get used to it.

I don't know what else to write about my classes so if there is anything you want to know just comment and I will add it on!